The benefit of a password manager

“Many of the added conveniences we’ve grown accustomed to come with their own annoyance: another password to remember,” said Katherine Bindley in The Wall Street Journal. For most of us, memorizing dozens of multicharacter passwords simply isn’t realistic. Neither is reusing a small number of passwords, which most experts agree is “a terrible idea” from a security standpoint. One increasingly popular solution: password managers. Essentially a vault that stores your passwords in one place, password managers use a master password to operate as a key unlocking access to all other passwords. After importing the log-ins you already use, it can “generate new—and most likely stronger—passwords for you,” and also fill in log-ins for preselected websites and apps.